Monday, April 25, 2011

Monday, April 11, 2011

We've been studying shapes in geometry in math for the past few weeks. The students have become such experts on various shapes! Below you can view a VoiceThread the students have used to share all they know about different shapes.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

We did it! We made a movie about motion. We found examples of straight motion, back and forth motion, and circular motion. We sorted all the examples we found and put them into our movie. Then we created our titles and recorded them. We are so proud! You can even watch our video on YouTube.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

For several weeks we studied Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington Carver. We read books about them and wrote down what we were learning on a big data retrieval chart (the yellow chart here). At the end, each child chose one of the men in order to create a snow globe about them.From these globes you can see how much we all learned about these men.

Abraham Lincoln here was the 16th president of the United States, is on money, and wore a large hat.George Washington Carver was a scientist who worked with peanuts and cotton. He used a mortar and pestle.

George Washington was a farmer and our first president. He is also on money.

Benjamin Franklin is on money, invented bifocals (special glasses), and used a kite to discover that lightening is electricity.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Last week we got oranges to eat. They looked purple on the inside. They were actually orange on the outside. They were so yummy and tasted like oranges. These oranges were a little bit sweeter than regular oranges. We liked them so much because they were delicious. They were different oranges than the regular oranges but they were still tasty.La semana pasadallegamosacomernaranjas.Se veíanpúrpuraenel interior.Elloseran en realidadde color naranjaenelexterior.Erantandeliciosoysabor anaranja.Estasnaranjassonunpocomás dulceque lanaranjaregular.Lesgustótantoporqueerandeliciosas.Erannaranjasdiferente alas naranjasregular, perotodavía eransabrosas.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Last week, after a couple of weeks of practice, we presented our Reader's Theaters. These are like plays but no one has to memorize anything. The students read their parts and we worked hard on several things: volume (being loud enough), speed (not too fast or too slow), and expression. In addition, students had to really think about standing still, holding their paper below their face and still, and following along while others were reading.

This first one is from the book Click, Clack, Moo, a book we greatly enjoy.